A proper announcement for the Riddler event

[Darj]

I see The Riddler around, and I know it was a Monster from the previous Halloween event and whatnot. But I can't find any explanation or information about its return. IMO it would be nice to have an official announcement from mods, posted in the News section, mentioning or explaining what it's going on with that, just to make the event more formal, since all I can find is the Riddler's thread on Misc., but it doesn't explain why the monster was allowed to be back, plus some users may not keep track of what goes on in Misc. either.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

I see The Riddler around, and I know it was a Monster from the previous Halloween event and whatnot. But I can't find any explanation or information about its return. IMO it would be nice to have an official announcement from mods, posted in the News section, mentioning or explaining what it's going on with that, just to make the event more formal, since all I can find is the Riddler's thread on Misc., but it doesn't explain why the monster was allowed to be back, plus some users may not keep track of what goes on in Misc. either.

 

Parenthesis/Giga brought up the idea to us via PM for an April Fool's thing (which apparently spread a lot farther). All we knew was that it would involve something in Classified (because we never used it after Rai's other stuff), but what the scope of that was; we didn't know. 

 

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Easter event will be up shortly once the eggs are made and hints calibrated. A word of warning; some of the hints this year may be easier to figure out, and others WILL require you to do actual computations or otherwise figure out what each hint means. 

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

I mean, it is pinned in misc.

 

This event was 100% me, rather than something put together by the mod team.

 

Like last year, it didn't have any big announcement, and since I'm not staff I didn't want to overstep at all.

 

As for why I was allowed to do it, chalk it up to me being funking awesome and nobody really giving a sheet.

[Darj]

Yeah, I'm cool with you having your event and all; it's quite nice from you to organize stuff for YCM. But still, you require or required some control and/or access to the Classified section, right? Which involves a Mod, so yeah, I found odd that no Mod gave any information nor made any official announcement about the event.

 

And again, it may be pinned on Misc. but I guess not every user hangs out there, at the very least I don't, so some of them, especially newcomers, may not know what's going on with this monster account and riddle events, making it more unlikely for them to jump in and participate.

 

Last time you didn't need an introduction since in a way it was a branch from the Halloween event, but this time it felt as if The Riddler had come out of nowhere, and doesn't look like it was meant as an April's Fool joke that lasted for 1 day.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

This was really just done the same way as last year. As matter of fact, last year the wasn't even a thread.

 

In any case, I will keep that in mind if I run anything similar in the future.